Sentences with phrase «alec board»

After Ohio Senator Kris Jordan's attempt to repeal Ohio's RPS went nowhere, ALEC board member and Ohio State Senator William Seitz is now using ALEC's new anti-RPS bills to lead another attack on the Ohio law — see Union of Concerned Scientists.

Biddulph charges Dranias with launching a «full - on assault of the traditional Article V process» and attacking both BBATF and Convention of States, and formally asks the ALEC Board to revoke CFA's ALEC membership.

«As a member in good standing of an organization to which we are proud to belong,» he wrote, «we hereby request that the ALEC Board of Directors... revoke the membership of the Compact for America for attacking and undermining ALEC model Article V policies... Additionally, we request that the Board revoke ALEC's endorsement of the CFA model policy and any other endorsements of CFA.»

Ultimately, the ALEC board drafted a letter in response to the quarreling groups declining to revoke anyone's membership and chastising them to «behave with civility and professionalism» and «honor their commitments to each other.»

After a series of defeats in 2013, ALEC scored its first major victory for this agenda this year, as Ohio voted to freeze its renewables mandate, with legislation pushed by ALEC board member state senator Bill Seitz.

Phil King (ALEC Board member): «I think the global warming theory is bad science.»

Seitz's opposition to the AFV resolution may make its revival at the New Orleans meeting less likely, as the ALEC board has the final say over resolutions and model legislation passed out of task forces.

Correction: An earlier version of this article stated the 2015 alternative fuel vehicle resolution was defeated by the ALEC board.

The bill was adopted by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, today known as the Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, at ALEC's Spring Task Force Summit on May 5, 2000 — it was then approved by the full ALEC Board of Directors in June of 2000.

«Parent Trigger» was approved by the ALEC Board of Directors, January 7, 2011 as official ALEC Model Legislation.

Not exact matches

Commissioner Brenda Burns (R) served on ALEC's board for nine years and became the organization's national chairman in 1999.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

While ALEC has a governing board of state legislators it also has a governing board of corporations, packed with tobacco firms, giant pharmaceutical firms, and energy companies like Exxon Mobil.

It recently got a seat, for example, on the corporate board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), where for years it has also paid for a seat and vote on ALEC's «Education and Workforce Development» Task Force, which advances a «cash for kids» lobbying agenda.

After Google chairman Eric Schmidt accused ALEC of «literally lying» about climate change on NPR in September 2014, a fleet of companies ditched ALEC, from oil giants like BP and Occidental Petroleum to software and tech firms like Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, AOL, eBay, and SAP — the company which chaired ALEC's corporate board.

Ohio Senator Bill Seitz is a member of ALEC's board of directors who has compared renewable energy standard policies to «Joseph Stalin's five year plan»

Kevin Murphy, a public affairs executive, also represented Exxon on ALEC's corporate («Private Enterprise») board in 2011.

Koch Industries has had a seat on ALEC's «Private Enterprise» board for years, while Koch network entities like Freedom Partners, Americans for Prosperity, and Koch - funded «think tanks» have seats on a number of task forces where they get a vote on bills.

Peabody Energy is an Private Enterprise Board member, was 2011 winner of ALEC's Private Sector Member of the Year Award, and served as a «Chairman» level sponsor of 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $ 50,000.

The CMD listed financial underwriters of the ALEC event as the following (* Asterisks indicating membership on ALEC's corporate board of directors):

This decision is in direct opposition to ALEC's Resolution in Support of the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was approved earlier this month by the ALEC Legislative Board of Directors.

«ALEC's Corporate Board Leads... in Federal Violations,» PR Watch, September 21, 2017.

ALEC dropped this disclaimer after CMD's successful open records lawsuit against its national board member and Wisconsin State Senator Leah Vukmir.

In Bourne's time directing ALEC's environmental task force, the «Environmental Literacy Improvement Act» was created and approved by ALEC's board in June, 2000.

Mader was involved with ALEC for decades, mostly as Peabody's representative on the Corporate («Private Enterprise») Board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) as of 2011.

While this ALEC bill was finalized, ALEC's Private Enterprise board chairman was Mike Morgan of Koch Industries.

Fossil fuel companies Koch Industries and ExxonMobil serve on the ALEC private sector board and major utilities such as Devon Energy, Peabody Energy are ALEC funders and participants.

A 2016 memo from BBATF's Biddulph to ALEC's board exposes the level of hostility between the groups.

Exxon has paid substantial sums to serve in a leadership capacity at ALEC, both on the group's corporate board and on energy - related issue task forces, where corporations introduce «model» legislation and hold de facto veto power over what bills are subsequently promoted by ALEC.

Q: Will you be seeking advise and counsel from ALEC's Board of Directors, Private Enterprise Advisory Council, Board of Scholars or Private Sector Members to clarify ALEC's position on climate change in the wake of Google and other recent corporate departures?

Reynolds was on the corporate («Private Enterprise») board of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) from 2011 - 2013.

ExxonMobil is among the top sponsors of ALEC's 2015 annual meeting, and Exxon's Cynthia Bergman remains on ALEC's corporate board.

In 2013, ALEC pushed model legislation to repeal renewable energy portfolio standards in over a dozen states, though it failed across the board.

ALEC has since distanced itself from the language in the leaked agreement, although it is known that ALEC staff did present the document for board approval, but according to the meeting agenda obtained by CMD, another Peabody lobbyist at the meeting, Kelly Mader, advised those present on the «roles and responsibilities» of being an ALEC state chair.

The documents were submitted to Stephen Moore, Wall Street Journal editorial board member, founder of the Club for Growth, and ALEC «scholar,» who was asked to review the proposals and «identify your top 20 and bottom 20 proposals.»

This month, at ALEC's third and final meeting of the year in Scottsdale, Arizona, I had an interesting encounter with a member of ALEC's board of directors.

Exxon is also a member of ALEC's corporate board and funder of ALEC.

[5] ALEC listed the company as part of its Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force until it allegedly terminated its membership on January 14, 2013 because its «merged with Duke; new contacts» (Duke remained an ALEC member), according to an August 2013 board document obtained by The Guardian.

«The biggest scam of the last 100 years is global warming,» one member of ALEC's Private Enterprise Advisory Board said during the group's 2015 annual meeting, at one of the few sessions open to reporters.